Method of cutting fabrics



Feb 28, 1933. c. DUISDIEKER METHOD OF CUTTING FABRICS Filed Oct. 27, 1931 ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 28, 1933 UNITED STATES CARL DUISDIEKER, OF NEW YORK N. Y.

ME'I'HQD OF CUTTING FABRICS Application filed October 27, 1931.

My invention relates to a method of cutting knitted fabrics in the manufacture of bathing and beach suits according to which bias cuts form the shoulder straps for keeping the same in position, and to make the shoulder seams lie flat avoiding doubling of the material.

This invention relates, furthermore, to improvements in the method of cutting fab- 0 rics, particularly knitted fabrics used in the manufacture of bathing suits, and it is another object of my invention to provide a method by means of which a considerable saving in material is effected, in some instances as high as twenty percent.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a method of cutting knitted material on bias to promote stretching and supply suficient elasticity to the material for allowing freedom of movement so desirable in bathing suits.

These and other objects and. advantages of my invention will become more fully known as the descri tion thereof proceeds, and will then be speclfically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, illustratlng the method according to my invention, formingga material part of this disclosure:

ig. 1 illustrates the old method of cutting a bathing suit from a piece of material.

Fig. 2 illustrates the method according to my invention.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of a bathing suit made according to my method.

As illustrated in Figure 1 according to the conventional method of cutting, a piece of tubular material 10, preferably knitted fabric was cut away at the edges as at 11, 11,

12, 12', 13, 13' and in the center as at 14, re-

sulting in a great loss of material.

According to my method illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 the tubular material 16 is out along the median line 17 of the fabric to form simultaneously two front parts of two bathing suits and to allow the cutting out of a piece 18 to be used as strengthening material or for other purposes. The shoulder straps 19, 20 for the front parts, are cut out from the outer edges of the material and are Serial No. 571,451.

out on bias as indicated at 21, 22, and the shoulder straps 23, 24 for the rear parts of two bathing suits, are then cut out from the material between the shoulder straps 19, 20

while the body of the two rear parts is formed by cutting away the material as indicated at 25, 26, to form the body 27. When now the shoulder straps 19, 20, and 23, 24, cut on bias are sewed together they will not overlap, but come together flat, keeping the straps in position while the cut on bias will promote stretching of the material and supply elasticity enough toallow freedom of movement so desirable in bathing suits.

It will be evident that by my method according to which I cut first the front parts 29 of two bathing suits and the rear parts 28 of two suits at one time and their stra s by bias cuts, inthe space left by cutting -t e m shoulder straps of the front parts, I save a great quantity of material about 20% which must be considered a highly important result in the wholesale manufacture of bathing suits or the like constituting a vital curved before cutting. It is clear that by my method not only bathing suits but also knitted underwear and sports-wear may be cut resulting in a saving of considerable material, labor and time.

It will be understood that I have disclosed the preferred form of my method only as one example of the many possible ways to practically use the same, and that I may make such changes therein as come within the scope of the appended claims without departure from the spirit of my invention and the principles involved.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The method of making suits from tubular knit goods which consists in cutting two front and two rear parts from the tubular goods simultaneously and forming the shoul der straps of the front and rear parts by bias cuts with the median line of the shoulder straps on the bias.

2. The method of making bathing suits from tubular knit fabrics which consists in cutting two front and two rear parts from the tu ular fabric simultaneously and forming the shoulder straps of the front and rear parts by bias cuts with both edges of the stra s biased in the same direction.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 24th day of October, A. D. 1931.

CARL DUISDIEKER. 

